Royal School of Mines Royal School of Mines was established in 1851, as the Government School of Mines and Science Applied to the Arts. The School developed from the
Museum of Economic Geology, which had provided some student places for the study of
mineralogy and
metallurgy. The Museum of Practical Geology and the Government School of Mines and Science Applied to the Arts opened in a purpose-designed building in
Jermyn Street in 1851. The officers of the Geological Survey became the lecturers and professors of the School of Mines. The
Royal College of Chemistry was merged into it in 1853, and the name changed in 1863 to the Royal School of Mines. The school moved to
South Kensington in 1872, and in 1907 was incorporated into Imperial College of Science and Technology, retaining its own identity as a
constituent college. The school moved to a new building designed by Sir
Aston Webb, which was completed in 1913. In 1907, the same year as
Imperial College was founded, the college was renamed The City & Guilds College, and was incorporated into Imperial in 1910 as a constituent college. Although the City & Guilds College was governed by Imperial College following its incorporation as a constituent college, the City and Guilds Institute maintained seats on the Court of Imperial College. The merge resulted in the closing of the City & Guild's chemistry department in 1913 and the merging of the mathematics department into the other constituent colleges, and the splitting of the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering into separate departments. The Goldsmiths Extension was constructed immediately to the north, between the college and the
Royal School of Mines and workshops were added behind the original building, allowing the college to double in size. The college had come to be known as "the Central" by 1935, with students known as "Central men". The original building was demolished in 1962 to make way for newer facilities for the college. The college celebrated in centenary in 1985, by which time it had grown to 2200 students.
Faculty In 2001, Imperial College restructured, creating a new faculty system, and the Faculty of Engineering was created. The City & Guilds College, along with the other constituent colleges, ceased to exist as a separate entity. In September of the same year, the Mechanical Engineering Building was renamed the City and Guilds Building (CAGB) to honour the links between Imperial College and the City and Guilds College. After an extensive refurbishment, the City and Guilds Building now houses the Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics departments. In 2014 the
Dyson School of Design Engineering was founded following a £12m donation by the
James Dyson Foundation to the college, being the first new engineering division at Imperial for two decades. The school took over the old
Met Office building from the
Science Museum on the corner of
Imperial College Road and
Exhibition Road. Alumni of the Imperial College Faculty of Engineering are organised as the City & Guilds College Association. Established in 1897 as the Old Centralians, the Association adopted its current name in 1992. == Departments ==